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These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
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Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
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the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders:
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but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
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I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoe has not grown old on your foot.
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You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.
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When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them:
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and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.
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Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
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You stand this day all of you before Yahweh your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
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your little ones, your wives, and your sojourner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;
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that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you this day;
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that he may establish you this day to himself for a people, and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
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Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,
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but with him who stands here with us this day before Yahweh our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day